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Cooling system leaks, we’ll find them but would other inspections?

Thursday, May 16th By Josh

As your engine warms up, the pressure in the cooling system increases. It isn’t uncommon to have a cooling system only leak when the engine is hot. We pressure test cooling systems when appropriate to verify there are no cooling system leaks cold or hot.

Here’s one that would have may been overlooked by most independent/dealer used vehicle inspections as they don’t typically pressurize the cooling systems as part of their standard inspections.

Cooling system leak on a Jeep Wrangler

 

Filed Under: Automobile Pre Purchase Inspections, Car Buying, Car Maintenance, Things we see, Used Car, Vehicle Maintenance Tagged With: cooling system leaks, portland car inspection, ppi, pressure testing, Used Car Buying, Used Car Inspection, Used Vehicle Inspection, uvi

About Josh

PDXinspections is a business that is truly about and protecting today’s car buyers from making bad purchasing decisions. It is about helping people avoid the hassles, risks and expenses when used car buying. Josh takes pride in this company, continuing education, training, certifications, quality workmanship and most importantly excellent customer service. Modern computerized complex vehicles are our passion. Josh is a unique new breed of technician who actually enjoys staying up on current technology and working with newer vehicle technologies rather than the simplistic vehicles of the past. We continually strive to under promise and over deliver. Since 2007 have built this company to become the most advanced, innovative, and thorough independent onsite used vehicle inspection company anywhere. We take great pride in PDXinspections and continually work towards ensuring our clients get the best possible experience when using our service. We continually invest in updating our high tech inspection tool & diagnostic equipment to ensure we have the latest and greatest tooling for our inspections. PDXinspections is the innovator in the “Used Car Inspection” industry and we’ve watched other companies both here in the Portland/Vancouver markets and nationally continue to follow our unique practices.

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